Letter: Was Carthel firing planned by athletic director?

Posted: August 31, 2013 - 6:14pm

In an interview with AGN Media’s Lee Passmore (Offensive line coach takes reins of Buffs program, Aug. 22, amarillo.com), (West Texas A&M Athletic Director) Michael McBroom, speaking of Mike Nesbitt, said the following: “I’ve always had tremendous respect for Mike. I always had it in the back of my mind that Mike would be someone I would like to have if the opportunity presented itself.”

What Mr. McBroom did was pure and simple premeditated provocation.

It is a dirty shame he is that kind of a man, and not the kind of people we are here in the Texas Panhandle. Mr. McBroom needs to move on down the road and go mess up some other school.

What is sad is there is a question in my mind as to the ability of (WT President) Dr. (J. Patrick) O’Brien to make the right decisions to carry WT forward. We are talking a million dollar-plus educational campus.

We need all the support and fans we can get, and he is running them off over $60 and a little white lie.

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Michael "No Other Option" McBroom. And, yes, he might not have hired Nesbitt for that very reason, but Carthel's firing was planned for several years. "No Other Option" was just waiting for the first opportunity.

And then O'Brien gets on Facebook and says that if he had not fired Carthel, WT's regional accreditation would be at stake along with Federal funding and grants. He also said WT's graduates would not be able to be accepted into any graduate program other than WT's. I spoke with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and they said that problems with NCAA regs has nothing to do with accreditation. So, this seems like a pretty substantial lie, trying to justify a bone-headed mistake on the part of the administration. Can we expect Mr. O'Brien's resignation?

One other thing. O'Brien had a picture on his Facebook profile page that was very vulgar. He again went on Facebook and said a friend had put it there, and he did not realize it was on his page. It had been there 21 months. He did not realize that only he had access to his profile page. Then his wife went on Facebook and said the same thing. Lie after lie and lie!!!

This can all be documented in the pictures page of the "I Support Don Carthel" Facebook page.

If there were truly no other option, would O'Brien have to lie to justify his decision? How can the Texas A & M System justify retaining O'Brien as president? How can the NCAA justify retaining him as Chairman of the Division 2 Presidents' Council? Who will ever trust him again? His credibility and integrity are shot!!!

There are many stories where power, greed, lust and other human emotions change the course of history.

Johnny football was convicted in the public arena and great embarrassment came upon the Texas A&M system. His punishment of being suspended for one half of the first football game of the season was devastating to alumni, students, athletes, the program, the conference and too many to name here.

WT, wanting to set the benchmark for university behavior did...hell! We don't know what they did and why they did it or even the whole story.

It's not the first time WT has cut it's arms, legs, reproductive organ, ears and nose off just to spite its face.

The ONLY thing that WT can do to salvage this situation is to allow tailgating to continue during the game and 3 hours after. Move game times up....

It is sad when personalities overrule good judgment to effect the direction of an university. This then begs the question if those driven by emotion should be making major decisions for the university. Seems more change in order. Sad.